This was about 1:15 in Denver today. If anything remotely close to this blows back in this afternoon, I'll be riding the TT bike in the basement on the trainer, again. If we are lucky we'll be able to get out during the brief window between early afternoon thunderstorms and late-mid afternoon thunderstorms. It's all about timing, speaking of timing, Steve's timing was just a hair off for him to be able to go home with his brand new, used espresso grinder.
I picked up this Rancilio grinder after spotting in during some casual craigslist browsing. Steve had just started getting used to the fact that after a month of having a commercial set up at his disposal, going back to drinking drip coffee wasn't going to cut it. The price was right on the grinder, at about 1/10th of its original cost.
I started into the tear down/clean up process, hoping that disassembly would be pretty straight forward with the aid of parts diagrams. No such luck . . . I do know it needs a good cleaning and might as well throw a new set of burrs in there for $40. If you are going to be grinding beans for pulling shots in a busy coffee shop, this is the machine for you. It is an automatic grinder, meaning you hit start and it runs until it trips the switches in the doser saying it is full. If you are just grinding for a couple shots, you have to pay attention that you don't go through the beans at the advertised pace of 20 lbs/hr.
The hopper and doser have a nice tint to them so they don't show the build up of coffee oils very quickly. I was a bit surprised to see that the burrs were worn as much as they were since as you can see from the label, this grinder was used for decaf. espresso, whatever that might be.
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